English 333 - SEM:MAJOR BRIT OR AMER WRITER

Ursula K. LeGuin is arguably the most important writer of science fiction and fantasy in the second half of the 20th century and certainly one of the best. Although the course stresses her experiments with the novel form, we also consider other genres in which she writes-short story, "suites" of longer stories, essays, poetry. We study the formal experiments of her fiction and its accompanying thought-experiments with gender, identity, the good society, and the promise and fear of the other.

Topic: Ursula K. Leguin. Instructor permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores